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The MetSche Message
Andre, nearly blind, experiences years of alienation, frustration, and abiding sadness in the face of human beings’ cruelty to one another. His sources of joy are few: good food, music, computer science, and the arms of his lover, John. Only in middle age does he learn that he and a very few others have been chosen by two far superior alien races to deliver a message to all of humanity.
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Published March 13, 2016
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June 7, 2017
The Metsche Message is a unique blend of science fiction and poignant coming-of-age story. The reader learns of the challenges faced by Andre, the book's visually impaired protagonist. Having a visual challenge myself and having had to face eye surgeries from a very young age, I could sympathize. I, too, attended a "boarding" or "residential" school for the blind. Not the esteemed Perkins, but one in the South. I, too, mainstreamed from this school to a public high school for part of the day. It's a nice idea, but you end up exhausted trying to serve two masters: the high expectations of the boarding school administration and the uncertainties of the public school teachers who usually need a bit of educating in the ways of the visually challenged and blind. If you are lucky, you might even make friends. Looks and/or brains help with this. You also hope your support system at the boarding school is everything you have been told it will be.
If this book had simply been a coming-of-age novel, it would have been worth reading because of it straightforward account of the protagonist's challenges in life, at school, and even in college and of how he ultimately triumphs. But there is more. We are treated to a mystical element in that the protagonist is contacted by an advanced civilization and shown a nearly utopian future and invited to join it.
If this book had simply been a coming-of-age novel, it would have been worth reading because of it straightforward account of the protagonist's challenges in life, at school, and even in college and of how he ultimately triumphs. But there is more. We are treated to a mystical element in that the protagonist is contacted by an advanced civilization and shown a nearly utopian future and invited to join it.
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